Cities in the DFW Metroplex are taking steps to prepare for a winter storm, prioritizing road safety around hospitals and emergency facilities.
TxDOT continues to pretreat major highways and other busy arteries across the DFW Metroplex, focusing first on bridges and overpasses.Both Dallas and Fort Worth are making it a priority to focus first on keeping roads passable around hospitals and other emergency facilities.Monday afternoon, trucks were already out across Fort Worth. The city’s medical district is a big priority as they treat the streets and entrances near hospitals where emergency vehicles are likely to travel.
The Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department is in prep and pretreatment mode. Huge amounts of sand are getting loaded up and ready. 'We will have crews on standby for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,' said Teanna Thompson, with the city’s public works department. 'Thursday, we will start a 24-hour rotation. So our crews will be on 12-hour shifts.'The sand-salt mixture aims to keep ice at bay when the surface temperature drops below freezing. 'Brine, we have to do at least 48 hours in advance,' said Thompson. 'We are doing our critical hills, our hospitals, our emergency entrances and our emergency overflow shelters.'Shelters are another priority ahead of the winter storm, with the goal being to get everyone inside and out of the freezing temperatures.'This situation doesn’t come around in Texas a lot,' said Gary Wilkerson, When We Love executive director. 'But when it arrives, it is very dangerous, and it has to be taken seriously.'Wilkerson’s non-profit is providing an emergency overflow shelter in Fort Worth. It’s ready for use when the city’s available permanent shelter space reaches capacity.'We partner with the city of Fort Worth and the Tarrant County Homeless Coalition to make sure people have a safe, warm place to lay their head at night,' Wilkerson said. 'It’s a very dangerous situation, and we recommend everybody that’s on the street that doesn’t have a safe place to go, that they come to our building here at 1100 East Lancaster and let us get them into the shelte
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